Rare Pionium Decays and Pion Polarizability

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1999-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9902284v2

Eur.Phys.J.A6:115-118,1999

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

7 pages, Latex, no figures, discussion and references added, version to appear in EPJ A

Scientific paper

10.1007/s100500050324

We calculate the decay of pionium atoms into two photons. The pion polarizability gives rise to a 10% correction to the corresponding decay width for pointlike pions. This opens the possibility to obtain the difference between the electric and magnetic polarizability of the charged pion from a future measurement of the branching fraction of pionium into two photons. For such an experiment the \pi\pi-scattering lengths would have to be known to better than 5% precision. We also comment on the contribution of the axial anomaly to the decay of pionium into \gamma\pi^0.

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